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Schroeder, Stephen R.; Courtemanche, Andrea – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
There is a very substantial literature over the past 50 years on the advantages of early detection and intervention on the cognitive, communicative, and social-emotional development of infants and toddlers at risk for developmental delay due to premature birth or social disadvantage. Most of these studies excluded children with severe delays or…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Early Intervention, Developmental Disabilities, Behavior Disorders
Kasprzak, Christina; Hurth, Joicey; Lucas, Anne; Marshall, Jacqueline; Terrell, Adriane; Jones, Elizabeth – National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2010
The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC) Technical Assistance (TA) Model for Long-Term Systems Change (LTSC) is grounded in conceptual frameworks in the literature on systems change and systems thinking. The NECTAC conceptual framework uses a logic model approach to change developed specifically for states' infant and…
Descriptors: Individualized Family Service Plans, Models, Disabilities, Young Children
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Charman, Tony; Baron-Cohen, Simon – Cognitive Development, 1995
Explores the dissociation between the performance by children with autism on false belief tasks, on which they do poorly, and false photograph, false map, and false drawing tasks, on which they do well. Suggesting domain specificity in the development of representational system, the results supported the modularity of theory of mind and the…
Descriptors: Autism, Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Simeonsson, Rune J.; Wiegerink, Ronald – Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Developmental Disabilities, Exceptional Child Research, Infants
Shuster, Susan K., Ed.; McBride, Susan L., Ed. – 1979
Three papers and four task force reports from a 1979 conference on the state of the art in early intervention for developmental disabilities are presented. J. Gliedman, in "Social, Psychological, and Ethical Foundations for Early Intervention for the Developmentally Disabled," applies a minority group model to the education of handicapped…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Developmental Disabilities, Infants, Intervention
Wnek, Linda; And Others – 1980
The document consists of a program manager's manual for the Parent Infant Program (PIP), an early intervention program designed to foster effective parenting of infants with developmental disabilities and delays. Section 1 provides a program overview. Three program goals are: to build parental confidence as primary teachers/facilitators of their…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Developmental Disabilities, Developmental Programs, Home Programs
Kovach, JoAnne; Kjerland, Linda – 1988
This final report describes Project Dakota, an early intervention demonstration project serving newborns to preschoolers with developmental delay or disability in Dakota County, Minnesota, from 1983 to 1986. The first chapter describes the project model (which focuses on increasing the effectiveness of parents in fostering the child's development)…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Community Programs, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems
Fenichel, Emily, Ed. – Zero to Three, 1994
This newsletter theme issue contains contributions by parents, practitioners, researchers, administrators, and providers of technical assistance, which explore aspects of the complex process of developmental assessment of infants and young children. They describe what is helpful and what can be harmful in current assessment practice. They offer…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), At Risk Persons, Child Development, Classification